Originally Posted by
heartybob
The sandwich and desert in ET was an enhancement that was introduced when the number of cabin crew on the ex-LGW 737s was reduced to 3 about 6 or 7 years ago. Prior to that in ET, on the PRN rotation at least, which IIRC was a Band 4, there was a hot breakfast on the outbound and a hot meat on the inbound plus drinks trolley and duty-free.
I certainly would not want to mislead anyone and the catering stowage reason was what I was told by BA when I asked why it was different at LGW.
There was a project recently to make the offering identical out of both bases but this involved lowering the offering at LHR as opposed to increasing it at LGW and we were told that there was not enough space on the 737 to increase it at LGW.
We crew fought hard to persuade BA that althought there was a difference it made no sense to lessen the product at LHR, just to make LHR and LGW match.